Offshore news

The company was drilling northwest of the Balder field in the central part of the North Sea when it made the discovery of several oil and gas-bearing intervals.

Maersk Drilling has been awarded a contract for the 7th generation drillship Maersk Valiant, which will be employed by Noble Energy for a one-well campaign offshore Colombia.

Talos is the operator of Zama, located offshore Mexico, and holds a 35% working interest in Block 7 in a consortium with its partners Sierra Oil & Gas, a Wintershall DEA company, and Premier Oil plc.

Based on extensive mapping of the underground the remaining potential of the Statfjord area is still considerable, according to Equinor and its partners.

CGG has closed its strategic partnership transaction for marine seismic acquisition services with Shearwater GeoServices Holding AS (Shearwater).

Both contracts are now firm until the end of December 2020 and will commence in direct continuation of the current contracts.

The one-month survey will cover parts of block A5 offshore Gambia in the rapidly emerging and prolific Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Conakry (MSGBC) Basin.

Royston has completed the overhaul of a critical power system onboard another Bluewater Services operated floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel.

In a two-year deal valued in the region of US$50 million, Petrofac will integrate the services of its Operations, Projects and Well Engineering service lines.

Wintershall Dea Norge AS, operator of production licence 894, is in the process of concluding the drilling of wildcat well 6604/6-1 in the Norwegian Sea, according to the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.